I’m a little behind on blog posts so bare with me. I am going on my 3rd cold/illness since Halloween and all of last week we had all 3 boys home for the Thanksgiving break. So, of course we HAVE to get out of the house – as a boy mom x 3 if you know you know. Life is better outside than in with the constant fighting.
Last Monday the first day off of their full week at home we ended up driving up to Palo Alto and staying the entire day there. The initial mission was first to return a top at Free People Stanford (their store is so much bigger than Westfield’s Valley fair. Then walk over to the beauty spot of Arizona Cactus Garden which is on the grounds of the Stanford University campus. I’ve only been there once before almost 3 years ago to take this pregnancy announcement pic with my third baby. So I knew my two eldest boys didn’t remember exploring in here.
Watching the boys this time was a whole new experience… they were incredibly protective of their toddler brother. My eldest knelt down and sweetly explained that the cacti were sharp and not to touch them. They walked right beside him, acting as bossy little bodyguards, ready to intervene if he got too close. It was pure sweetness.
For the outing, I dressed them in these specific matching tees from Spunky Stork (we have SO many of their tees!!), hoping to snap some great photos for this year’s Christmas cards. However most of our Christmas Cards would’ve been sent to our Canadian friends and family, and I’m pretty sure the Canada Post strike is still ongoing, those might just end up being social media posts instead. We shall see!
I google mapp’ed the time back to our house and it was going to take way too long so off we went back down to Palo Alto and headed over to Nealon Park. Spent a great bit of time there and google maps was still in the red zone. Another detour? Sure! Let’s do it. I knew we were somewhat close to the not-so hidden gem, Redwood Grove in Los Altos. Honestly, we only stopped for about fifteen minutes before it got too dark to safely explore anymore…and I get incredibly sketched out exploring the woods after sunset!